2014/2015

Features

WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD WORKERS

THE GOOD JOBS SUMMIT

Guylaine Spencer

The recent summit in Toronto launched a conversation about where good jobs will come from for the next generation. It brought together an unusual mix that included students, labour leaders, business leaders, community activists, and politicians. Here’s what four young participants had to say about what a good job means to them.

“We have to work to change the world we live in, as a way of building a bigger vision and a better society,” says Kyle Buott, president of the Halifax-Dartmouth & District Labour Council, and secretary-treasurer of the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour.

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TRIBUTE TO JIM BIROS (1948-2014)

Robin Breon

With the death of Jim Biros on September 19, 2014, at the age of 66, Canada lost a fierce partisan of the arts.